Common name: White Ash
Alphitonia petriei Braid & C.T.White APNI* 
Description: Small to medium-sized tree; buds and young shoots reddish brown hairy, branchlets prominently ribbed.
Leaves elliptic to oblong or ovate, usually 7–17 cm long, 3–7 cm wide, green and glossy above, white-hairy below with the veins rusty-hairy and prominently raised; petiole 10–14 mm long; stipules 1–2 mm long.
Fruit depressed-globose, 10–15 mm diam., blackish.
Distribution and occurrence: In regrowth and on the margins of subtropical rainforest north from Terania Creek; not common in N.S.W.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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